Now available at
The Shop at The Collection

The Historic New Orleans Collection is pleased to announce the release of its latest book, A Company Man: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies, by Marc-Antoine Caillot, edited and with an introduction and annotations by Erin M. Greenwald, staff curator and historian. (more…)

First selection is “A Company Man”
June 28 & 29 • Noon–2 p.m.

Friends and members of The Historic New Orleans Collection already know that our publications program plays an essential role in accomplishing our mission: studying and preserving the history and culture of New Orleans and the Gulf South. Our award-winning titles bring scholarship about the region to bookshelves and libraries across the country, where they continue to spark further research and discussion. (more…)

2013 Spring issue
A Company Man

Since 1983, The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly has brought historical essays, news of recent acquisitions, and announcements of The Collection’s events, exhibitions, and educational programs to its readers. All issues from fall 1999 to the present are available online as PDF files. The 2013 spring Quarterly is now available.

Online guide to extensive collections of T. Williams materials

The Historic New Orleans Collection is one of the major repositories for Tennessee Williams materials. Since acquiring the extensive Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection in 2001, the institution has continued to grow its Williams holdings. (more…)

NOLA.com video tour with
Doug MacCash

Take a video tour of the Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods with John Magill, curator/historian at The Historic New Orleans Collection. (more…)

“THNOC makes volunteers feel at home and truly values the time they spend at The Collection.” —Susan Eberle

The Historic New Orleans Collection is a bustling enterprise, and, in addition to our staff, we rely on a team of nearly 70 volunteers to make it all happen. Our volunteers, who work at both the Royal Street complex and the Williams Research Center, help us with day-to-day gallery and museum operations, tours, seminars, research needs, events and more. (more…)

Download the free app

The Collection announces its first free iPhone / iPad app “Historic New Orleans,” a collaborative effort with LookBackMaps of San Francisco. Discover New Orleans’s past as the app determines your location and shares photos from the first half of the 20th century taken in the same spot. (more…)

By Ben Sandmel

“I’m here and I’m back!” Ernie K-Doe has been sweeping the nation once again! Check out just a sampling of the coverage The Collection’s newly released Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans has received so far. (more…)

Volume two in the Louisiana Musicians Biography Series, by Ben Sandmel

The Collection is proud to announce volume two in its Louisiana Musicians Biography Series, Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans, available now in The Shop at The Collection, (504) 598-7147 or online. (more…)

The Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carré Digital Survey available online

The Collins C. Diboll Vieux Carré Digital Survey, an electronic version of the Vieux Carré Survey, allows users to access property data, photographs, plans, chain of title records, and citations, with the option to search by keyword, owners’ names, architectural rating, and even whether the owner was a free person of color. (more…)